Posted by: tfabris
Fact checking... Burn CDs from iTunes? - 09/01/2004 18:02
I'm not an iTunes user, so I don't know if this is possible:
- Download a song from iTunes.
- Song is in a proprietary, digital-rights-managed format that won't play on anything but an iPod.
- Use iTunes to burn an audio CD of the song.
- Rip that CD using an ordinary MP3 ripper/encoder.
- Ripped MP3 can now be played on proper equipment.
Temporarily setting aside the issue of re-encoding a piece of audio that's already been encoded once before, does this work?
- Download a song from iTunes.
- Song is in a proprietary, digital-rights-managed format that won't play on anything but an iPod.
- Use iTunes to burn an audio CD of the song.
- Rip that CD using an ordinary MP3 ripper/encoder.
- Ripped MP3 can now be played on proper equipment.
Temporarily setting aside the issue of re-encoding a piece of audio that's already been encoded once before, does this work?